Location

Lecture hall H4, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Universitaire Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek-Hasselt, Belgium

The Limburgs Universitair Centrum is located in Hasselt, the capital of the Belgian province Limburg. Hasselt is within about 1 hour drive from Brussels/Antwerp/Koln/Liege/Maastricht to which it is also directly connected by train. For information see the University homepage: http://alpha.luc.ac.be/

Transport:

Hasselt is possible to reach by a direct train from Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Koln, Maastricht… (enclosed selected time table),

Full train information is available on http://alpha.luc.ac.be/, http://www.b-rail.be

From Brussels: Brussel Zuid -Midi Eurostar (Centraal, Noord) -Hasselt: 27', 58') each hour. Last train 22:27

Connection from Brussel's airport: to Brussel Noord (Centraal, Midi) minimum 3 trains each hour, arriving to Brussels-Noord

From Anwerp Centraal: each hour (arriving in Hasselt next hour')

From Leuven: two trains each hour

By car:

Motorway E313 Antwerpen - Luik (Liege), connected to E314 Brussels-Aachen, - motorway cross in E313/E314 in Lummen (enclosed map).

From the Hasselt station to the University: Bus De Lijn #45

Conference hotels:

Hassotel, St. Jozefstraat, Hasselt; tel +32-11-226492, fax: +32-11-229477, the hotel is located in the city center within 5 minutes walk from the train station.

Hotel Ibis Thinissenlaan 52, Hasselt, tel +32-11-231111, fax: +32-11243323

Instructions for preparing the paper

The conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of physica status solidi.

Language: English.

Paper length:

Invited Paper: 6.600 words (including title, abstract, figures, tables references, etc.).

Contributed paper: 3.300 words (including title, abstract, figures, tables, references, etc.).

For each figure or table (including figure or table caption) an equivalent of 200 words should be taken into account. Example: A contributed paper with four figures (( 800 words) consists out 2.500 words (3300 - 800 = 2500).

Manuscripts should be printed double-spaced on one side of paper only and submitted in triplicate. The author's name, institution, address, FAX/telephone number and electronic-mail should be given.

An abstract of about 150 words is required.

Equations should be typewritten and numbered sequentially. Separate lines for equations should be used. Special care should be taken to distinguish subscripts, superscripts, and certain symbols. SI-units should be used throughout.

References should be numbered [in square brackets] and listed in the order of appearance on a separate sheet, in the format used in physica status solidi.

Carefully prepared, photoreproducible figures are required. They should be enclosed on separate sheets of paper. The lettering and symbols should be large and clear enough for reduction. Avoid small open symbols, small dots and small decimal points. Photographs should be submitted on white paper; colour prints are possible at additional costs. Duplicates for all figures are desirable. Figure captions should be printed on a separate sheet of paper ( with special instructions concerning the size of illustrations, if applicable).

Badly arranged or illegible manuscripts or figures are returned.

Authors who prepare their papers in LATX (TEX), WORD or WORD PERFECT are encouraged to submit a floppy disk together with their manuscript (please ensure that the text is identical in the hard and in the soft copy). All textual material of the paper (including tables, captions, etc.) should be in a single file.

The contributions will be refereed.

The manuscripts should be sent to reach the conference organisers before March 24th 1999. The conference office can process files formatted in LATEX and WORD.